Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aged figure of Abolitionist Douglass struggled out of the chair. "Agitate!" he cried. "Agitate! Agitate!" Blackout. A single spotlight cut through the darkness, focusing on the old rocking chair-now empty, still swaying back and forth. The audience rose to its feet for a thunderous ovation...
...sulky Bob Dylan (Christopher Guest), lurking offstage like Achilles in his tent, comes bounding before the spotlight when fistfuls of greenbacks are offered. The dynamic, petite and greatly gifted Alice Playten makes a spastic dithyramb of her takeoff on Mick Jagger. The mimicking of motorcycle addicts and musicians so stoned that they hold onto their mike stands as if they were swaying lampposts is all well-etched commentary, held together by an endearingly bumbling announcer (John Belushi) who sometimes cannot read the slips in his hand...
...students probably could not identify 60-year-old Tip O'Neill, but they soon will become aware of his singular personality. Moving into the office of former Majority Leader Hale Boggs, (D-La.), whose plane vanished over Alaska last October, O'Neill is suddenly being thrown into the media spotlight...
...opposed to Ford, Brooks has shunned the spotlight and is not very well known in the University community. He assisted Dunlop, maintaining a low profile and masterminding Faculty legislation from behind the scenes...
President Bok's appointment of Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, as Acting Dean Ford's legislative counterpart, will thrust the relatively unknown physicist into the public spotlight, a position he usually shuns...